Morning!
So class last night had a bit of a slap down. Coming from yours truly.
We have a girl in our class who is 17 and a senior in high school. She is extremely intelligent, has been taking college courses since she was 15, and is so effin obnoxious, I can't stand it. Most of the class rolls their eyes when she wants to interject in the discussion because she has this tone that is just whiny and put-upon. Her "bad reading experience" story was fifteen minutes on how she was forced to read Animal Farm in fifth grade (?!?!?) and, being a vegetarian, she found the book so offensive and didn't understand why her teacher would pick a satire on communism for a 5th grader to read and teachers are horrible when it comes to holding kids back from reading and blah blah blah. She just doesn't shut up.
Anyway, last night we were discussing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and I made the point that while there was no obvious moral to the tale as was the custom with children's stories of the time, it seemed to me that the Queen of Hearts represented Queen Victoria blah blah blah analytical cakes. The Obnoxious One says, "Well, maybe, but then who would the King of Hearts represent? He was just so quiet and didn't really do anything except pardon people the Queen condemned." I looked at her and said, "Prince Albert. Queen Victoria's husband. Who was quite like that." TOO then goes off on a rant about how much it must suck to be a king in England if it's always the Queen that are "bloody" and making all the decisions and tries to lecture *ME* on the British monarchy and succession. After she shut up I replied, "Prince Albert wasn't the King because the monarchy came down through Victoria. The current Queen's husband is also a Prince Consort because the royal line isn't his. However, when the current Queen dies, there will a King again and probably for the next long while. Unless something God Forbid happens. And as it stands right now, four people have to die before there will be a directly ascending Queen at which point England would have the first Supermodel Monarch." She just stared at me. And then our prof called break.
I feel kinda bad for slapping at the little girl, but she just pressed my buttons. She's a bratty little know-it-all who feels the need to spout all of her knowledge all over without a thought to the actual discussion at hand. I don't mind know-it-alls - hell, I *AM* one, but be a know-it-all about the discussion - not some random bullshit about your little brother's teacher and how you wished he was gifted like you.